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Hello and welcome to factually. I'm Adam Conover. Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.

You know, trauma seems like it's the word of the moment doesn't it?

And it's not hard to see why. I mean between the climate crisis, the war in Gaza,

the pandemic, Black Lives Matter, Me Too, Rising Fascism, and more. Trauma is everywhere, not to mention the personal traumatic experiences that many of us have had in our lives.

It seems like we're grappling openly for the first... that many of us have had in our lives.

It seems like we're grappling openly

for the first time with the concept of trauma

as a culture.

There's a desire now, maybe even a need

to finally acknowledge the vulnerability that we share as humans.

And that's powerful. The concept of trauma

validates the impact of interpersonal and societal harms and the effect that they have on us.

It provides us a framework for understanding them.

The shape of this conversation feels new and necessary,

and that is really cool, but, you know, just like anything in our culture, the conversation can get ahead of reality a little bit in ways that can get confusing.

If you pop up in Tik-Toc, you'll see thousands of teens trained in therapy speak talking about how everything from

sleeping too much to getting hungry is a trauma response and you know if everything

is trauma then nothing is so what is trauma really? Well on the show this week we're

going to take a step back and get a deeper understanding of trauma and what it

...